EYE HOLE ADORE
by Teresa Carmody
It gets tight. Two people can rub, and at some point there is an exchange, a falling off, a closing in. Also the house can rub. And the language can get small, and hold you in. Patterns of relationship can get tight. What do we only do? And what, exactly, is it – that constricts the heart?
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from Eye Hole Adore
Sometimes she became sullen, and I tried everything to make her stop, frivolous, sullen, moping, angry, affected, dishearten’d, atheist. I’d massage her, accuse her, blame her, kiss her. I’d yell and tell her what to do, beg, please please, cheer up. Change the attitude, that’s all. Here, let me listen. If it was Friday, I’d make her favorite red beans with Bhutanese red rice and red velvet cake, and if it was Wednesday, I’d make her blue potatoes with rosemary, blue corn muffins and spicy chokeberry sauce. Thursdays were easiest: pink lemonade with Mother’s iced animal cookies.
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Teresa Carmody is the author of Requiem (Les Figues, 2005) and the forthcoming Your Spiritual Suit of Armor by Katherine Anne by Teresa Carmody (Woodland Editions). Other work has appeared in Bombay Gin, Fold, Slope, American Book Review, Stolen Purse, and more. She was one of the organizers of the original Ladyfest in Olympia, Washington, and co-organizer (with Matias Viegener and Christine Wertheim) of Feminaissance, a colloquium on women, experiments and writing at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art. She is cofounder and co-director (with Vanessa Place) of Les Figues Press.